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HARMAN

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HARMAN reviews

3.8

76% would recommend to a friend

(5,962 total reviews)

Christian Sobottka

79% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

3.9

Diversity & inclusion

3.8

Culture & values

3.8

Work/Life balance

3.8

Compensation and benefits

3.6

Career opportunities

3.4

Senior management

HARMAN has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 5,962 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The HARMAN employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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Reviews by job title

6K reviews
2.0
Nov 10, 2015

Former Manager of Marketing

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great perks, brand heritage, and innovative culture. Now a sweat shop with very low moral.....it has only become much worse over time.

Cons

Pathetic Executive Management and cut throat culture. Weak product quality and unable to meet program milestones. Apple and Google are well on the path to making Harman solutions completely irrelevant.

2.0
Mar 24, 2015

Unsustainable. Organized chaos

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Populated with MOTIVATED people, who want to do a good job. Good pay (until you calculate the hourly rate). No comp time, despite 60+ hour weeks.

Cons

Like so many other reviewers, ZERO work-life balance (12+ hours days not uncommon), heavy and continuous workload. Harman is too successful (too many programs and not nearly enough staff to support ) and HR has not kept up with demand. Outsourcing is a problem, since the other employees are 12 hours opposite US schedule. Co-workers are frustrated and burned out.

2.0
Feb 7, 2015

Needs vision

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Cool products, smart people in the engineering and marketing levels. Great employee discounts on consumer products. Can be a good place for some career development if you don't stay too long.

Cons

No vision in executive leadership. Harman professes to be a technology leader that wants to attract and retain the best, but it's just lip service. Harman is a technology integrator with a stodgy east coast structure: no employee stock purchase plan, no bonus unless you are very high level, paltry stock grants and onerous vesting schedules. Compensation is based on class system, not merit: all the perks depend on you having "VP" in your title. Harman will implode unless the BoD wakes up and gets a CEO that has a vision for something more than making himself and his buddies wealthy while moving everything to India.

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